We encourage community involvement. The success of ORCID depends upon it! You may enter and vote on ideas for development on our iDeas Forum, check our Knowledge Base for technical documentation, or contact us with questions.

Calling all translators: Support researchers and scholars in your community by joining the ORCID community translation effort. Create localized versions of the ORCID Registry interface and outreach resources in your local language.

ORCID records support two connection types between researchers and organizations: education and employment. The community has been asking ORCID to support more. We are therefore proposing the addition of two new types, and request your feedback by November 20.

We're getting ready to celebrate our fifth anniversary on Monday, October 16. Today, we share a special celebration video, made with the help of ORCID staff and community members around the world. Enjoy!

The Organziation Identifier working group has issued a Request for Information to solicit comment and interest from the broader research community in developing an open organization identifier Registry. If you have seed data, are interested in a governance role or in serving as a host to start up the Registry, read on!

This month we are celebrating the first three Latin American ORCID members to be awarded Collect & Connect badges - CONCYTEC (Peru), Redalyc (Mexico), and Universidade de Campinas (Brazil). Congratulations and thanks to them all, as well as to the other members that were awarded badges in August!

As we approach on fifth anniversary on October 16, it’s a good time to reflect on how far ORCID has come. We couldn’t have done it without the support of numerous individuals and organizations across the scholarly communications community. To celebrate [email protected], this month we will be reporting on our progress in three key sectors: funders, publishers, and – in this post – research institutions.